Dale
@EuropaÍæż½ã½ã
New Zealander expat in Hungary
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Registration: 19 July 2012
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Quality Bike shops in Budapest by Bgordon
Hi all... following on from my post re Triathlon Clubs, I am trying in vain to locate any decent bike shops in Budapest... there seem to be a lot of Hire shops and second hand bike stores, but I can't seem to find anywhere that sells higher spec ...
Ahhh of course. trek.hu would be the obvious website :) Anyway, too late for me now. I bought one of these this morning from the shop I mentioned http://www.wilier-usa.com/en/products/road-bike/izoard/ Read More
Quality Bike shops in Budapest by Bgordon
Hi all... following on from my post re Triathlon Clubs, I am trying in vain to locate any decent bike shops in Budapest... there seem to be a lot of Hire shops and second hand bike stores, but I can't seem to find anywhere that sells higher spec ...
Can you tell me where the Trek shop is in dist 5? Or is there a website for it? Thanks. Read More
Quality Bike shops in Budapest by Bgordon
Hi all... following on from my post re Triathlon Clubs, I am trying in vain to locate any decent bike shops in Budapest... there seem to be a lot of Hire shops and second hand bike stores, but I can't seem to find anywhere that sells higher spec ...
I've been looking into this as well (planning to spend about half a million forints on a decent bike in the next week or two). Came across this one that I went into a few weeks ago biondobike.hu/ If you find any other shops I'd also be interested ... Read More
leaving hungary formalities? by kodaki
Dear All, Can anyone advise of the steps I need to take when leaving Hungary after 5 years? I will return to the UK but is there a process in Budapest I have to go through to notify people I have left and it is done cleanly? eg with residence cards, ...
Sorry to sidetrack this thread a bit, but dezpapp, if you have a lot of experience with foreigners relocating, I wonder would you mind if I send you a PM with a few questions about something? I'm moving to Hungary in a few weeks and I will have an ... Read More
Dark side of Hungary by szocske
Hi, Sometimes our topics get derailed by discussions of problems in Hungary like racism, corruption, theft, vandalism, bureaucracy... None of these are unique to Hungary, or even above regional average, but the specific blends and twists are good ...
Well, one way to keep people from being empowered to inflict change "bottom-up" is taxing them to death. I get to spend about one third of my earnings, two thirds going towards the "top-down" solutions by force of law.On a side note, isn't the ... Read More
Shipping personal items across Europe by EuropaÍæż½ã½ã
Hello! Within a few months IÂ’m planning to move from the Netherlands to Hungary. I will need to pack and send personal things from Amsterdam to Budapest so IÂ’m looking for a decent and reliable transport company to do this. I donÂ’t have too much to ...
Haha! 2 and a half thousand km in a weekend :) That would be possible, but at the same time I donÂ’t have *that* much to move. Now that I think about it, it's probably only around 150kg. Just a few bits of really expensive electronic and sports gear, ... Read More
Shipping personal items across Europe by EuropaÍæż½ã½ã
Hello! Within a few months IÂ’m planning to move from the Netherlands to Hungary. I will need to pack and send personal things from Amsterdam to Budapest so IÂ’m looking for a decent and reliable transport company to do this. I donÂ’t have too much to ...
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately IÂ’m not in Germany though ;) IÂ’ll have a look around if thereÂ’s some other similar sites in Holland for this. Or perhaps thereÂ’s an international ride-sharing/car-pooling type of website for people doing long ... Read More
Shipping personal items across Europe by EuropaÍæż½ã½ã
Hello! Within a few months IÂ’m planning to move from the Netherlands to Hungary. I will need to pack and send personal things from Amsterdam to Budapest so IÂ’m looking for a decent and reliable transport company to do this. I donÂ’t have too much to ...
Thanks! I'm planning on the central Pest side, district 5 or 6. Read More
Shipping personal items across Europe
Hello! Within a few months IÂ’m planning to move from the Netherlands to Hungary. I will need to pack and send personal things from Amsterdam to Budapest so IÂ’m looking for a decent and reliable transport company to do this. I donÂ’t have too much to ... Read More
Theft Warning by CarolineInce
Hi All, last week our apartment got broken into during the day. This was at 9.30am and I was only out for 10 minutes, two men kicked the door in and took my laptop, my boyfriends laptop and his digital camera. The police said there have been quite a ...
Ahh that's shit. Out of curiosity, I take it you're living in central Pest, given the districts you mentioned? 9.30 in the morning in a busy part of the city is a pretty bold move for a break-in. Read More
How good is the online shopping in Hungary? by onlyablur
Hi all We do more than half of our shopping online (food, clothes, books, electronic products etc). We are moving to Hungary soon, and I wonder if the online shopping businesses are quite established in Hungary? How does it compared to the UK? ...
Just curious, what do you consider "pricey" for some of these items you're referring to? Read More
Converting non-European driving license by EuropaÍæż½ã½ã
Got a little question... has anyone directly converted a non- European car driving license to a Hungarian one before? It was my understanding that probably only European ones could be converted without the need to do any driving tests etc (so just ...
Alright, maybe a bit more info might be helpful :) I'm not living in Hungary yet. I'm originally from New Zealand and also have British citizenship - the last 9 years I've been in Holland and if all goes to plan in about 4 months I'll be moving on ... Read More
Converting non-European driving license
Got a little question... has anyone directly converted a non- European car driving license to a Hungarian one before? It was my understanding that probably only European ones could be converted without the need to do any driving tests etc (so just ... Read More
Dark side of Hungary by szocske
Hi, Sometimes our topics get derailed by discussions of problems in Hungary like racism, corruption, theft, vandalism, bureaucracy... None of these are unique to Hungary, or even above regional average, but the specific blends and twists are good ...
Precisely, Fireroller - if you are an expat and you go to private clinics, I doubt you'd be paying the extra money to the doctor that locals might have to, which was EuropaÍæż½ã½ã's question.Bingo. Maybe I didn't make it clear enough, but that's what ... Read More
Dark side of Hungary by szocske
Hi, Sometimes our topics get derailed by discussions of problems in Hungary like racism, corruption, theft, vandalism, bureaucracy... None of these are unique to Hungary, or even above regional average, but the specific blends and twists are good ...
Interesting. I have a question for you. It's likely I will be moving to Budapest in about 7/8 months (living in the Netherlands right now). How would you go about avoiding the “gratitude money” situation when getting some kind of health ... Read More